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>> It would be great to sample plastic and get composition sufficient to determine a recycling category i love this idea. i cant believe how tiny the marked re
by TuringNYC 2y ago
>> It would be great to sample plastic and get composition sufficient to determine a recycling category
i love this idea. i cant believe how tiny the marked recycling categories are on the containers, i can barely see them. i always wondered how they even achieve this at the town recycling center.
- colechristensen 2y ago>how they even achieve this at the town recycling center They don't. A huge proportion is never recycled at all.
- klysm 2y agoPlastic generally isn’t recycled that much, and many kinds of plastic cannot sustainably be recycled. There’s a lot of automation in the space, and none of it uses the markers
- ianburrell 2y agoThe marks on plastic aren't recycling categories, they identify the plastic resin. They partially indicate recyclability but the form is important. I don't think they are used at recycling centers which mostly go on common shapes. Products are supposed to now use solid triangle to reduce the confusion with recycling.